IT Governance

DECEMBER 1, 2020

The majority of those came from a credential-stuffing attack targeting Spotify and a data leak at the messaging app GO SMS Pro, which you can learn more about below. Here is our complete list of November’s cyber attacks and data breaches. Data breaches. Data breaches. Cyber attacks. Ransomware.

Data breaches 137

Data breaches Ransomware e-Discovery Personal data 137

IT Governance

JANUARY 4, 2021

We’ll have a separate post looking at the year’s data breaches and cyber attacks in more detail, but in the meantime, you can find the full list of December’s incidents below. Data breaches. Data breaches. That brings the total for 2020 to more than 20 billion. Cyber attacks. Ransomware. aw (unknown).

Data breaches 116

Data breaches Ransomware Energy and Utilities Computer and Electronics 116

IT Governance

MAY 7, 2024

Plus, a further 3,029,461 known records newly breached Welcome to this week’s global round-up of the biggest and most interesting news stories. At the end of each month, these incidents – and any others that we find – will be used to inform our monthly analysis of data breaches and cyber attacks. Data breached: 395 GB.

Data breaches 59

Data breaches Education Manufacturing Retail 59

IT Governance

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

At the end of each month, these incidents – and any others that we find – will be used to inform our monthly analysis of data breaches and cyber attacks. Data breached: >33,000,000 people’s data. Data breached: 19,718,687 records. Data breached: 13,300,750 people’s data.

Data Privacy 52

Data Privacy Manufacturing Privacy Security 52

IT Governance

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

402,437,094 known records breached in 240 publicly disclosed incidents Welcome to this week’s global round-up of the biggest and most interesting news stories. At the end of each month, these incidents – and any others that we find – will be used to inform our monthly analysis of data breaches and cyber attacks.

Data Privacy 52

Data Privacy Manufacturing Privacy Energy and Utilities 52

IT Governance

JANUARY 9, 2024

At the end of each month, these incidents – and any others that we find – will be used to inform our monthly analysis of data breaches and cyber attacks. Publicly disclosed data breaches and cyber attacks: in the spotlight Hathaway breached, 41.5 Data breached: 41,500,000 records. They accessed 41.5

Data Privacy 75

Data Privacy Privacy Manufacturing Data breaches 75

Security Affairs

MAY 8, 2022

A devices may have been designed in one country and its components could be manufactured across multiple countries worldwide. This might result in a dramatic enlargement of the surface of attacks for organizations worldwide. To nominate, please visit:? Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook. Pierluigi Paganini.

Risk 80

Risk Manufacturing Cybersecurity Retail 80

IT Governance

JULY 27, 2018

In this blog, we look at the ongoing threat of debit and credit card fraud, explaining why it appeals to cyber criminals, what they do with the stolen information and how implementing the requirements of the PCI DSS (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard) can thwart crooks’ schemes. Everyone is a target. What does all this mean?

Data breaches 66

Data breaches Paper Retail Manufacturing 66

IT Governance

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

At the end of each month, these incidents – and any others that we find – will be used to inform our monthly analysis of data breaches and cyber attacks. We’ve also included more details on the top 3 biggest breaches of the week. Breached records: about 9 million. Only 3 definitely haven’t had data breached.

Data Privacy 52

Data Privacy Privacy Energy and Utilities Data breaches 52

IT Governance

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

The public data set on the ICO (Information Commissioner’s Office) website shows that data security isn’t necessarily better for financial organisations. Although the total number of data breaches – or rather, in those reported – decreased by 24% between 2019 and 2022 in the finance sector, the number of incidents increased by 99%.

Risk 104

Risk Data breaches Authentication Financial Services 104

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Our research has highlighted that 86% of consumers would consider switching to another company if a breach were to occur, with 35% of consumers stating that a data breach under the GDPR would ‘definitely’ give them a negative perception of a company. Manufacturing & Utilities. Retail, Catering & Leisure.

GDPR 81

GDPR Data breaches Retail Manufacturing 81

IT Governance

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Cyber criminals continued to wreak havoc, with the likes of Twitter , Uber and Neopets all reporting mammoth data breaches. In total, we have so far reported more than 1,000 data breaches in 2022, with almost half a billion breached records. Did anyone purchase the apparently stolen data?

Security 132

Security Data breaches Ransomware Military 132

IT Governance

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

18,267,244 known records breached in 94 newly disclosed incidents Welcome to this week’s global round-up of the biggest and most interesting news stories. At the end of each month, these incidents – and any others that we find – will be used to inform our monthly analysis of data breaches and cyber attacks.

Data Privacy 52

Data Privacy Manufacturing Privacy Data breaches 52

IT Governance

APRIL 22, 2024

16,482,365 known records breached in 240 newly disclosed incidents Welcome to this week’s global round-up of the biggest and most interesting news stories. At the end of each month, these incidents – and any others that we find – will be used to inform our monthly analysis of data breaches and cyber attacks.

Data Privacy 52

Data Privacy Privacy Manufacturing Security 52

IT Governance

JANUARY 30, 2024

At the end of each month, these incidents – and any others that we find – will be used to inform our monthly analysis of data breaches and cyber attacks. The data is more than mere credentials, too – according to Cybernews, most of the exposed data is sensitive. Data breached: more than 26 billion records.

Data Privacy 52

Data Privacy Retail Privacy Manufacturing 52

IT Governance

JUNE 1, 2021

For the second month in a row, ransomware has dominated our list of data breaches and cyber attacks. That partially explains why May’s total of 115,861,330 breached records is comparatively low. By contrast, we disclosed 1 billion breached records in April, and almost 4 billion in the first four months of the year.

Data breaches 124

Data breaches Ransomware Insurance Energy and Utilities 124

IT Governance

MARCH 11, 2024

66,702,148 known records breached in 103 newly disclosed incidents Welcome to this week’s global round-up of the biggest and most interesting news stories. At the end of each month, these incidents – and any others that we find – will be used to inform our monthly analysis of data breaches and cyber attacks. Data breached: 6.9

Data Privacy 87

Data Privacy Privacy Security Data breaches 87

IT Governance

DECEMBER 5, 2023

At the end of each month, these incidents – and any others that we find – will be used to inform our monthly analysis of data breaches and cyber attacks. Data breached: over 300 million records. Data breached: 35 TB. According to Cybernews , one of the data sets contained 13.3 Data breached: 13.3

Data Privacy 106

Data Privacy Privacy Manufacturing Retail 106

IT Governance

JANUARY 23, 2024

At the end of each month, these incidents – and any others that we find – will be used to inform our monthly analysis of data breaches and cyber attacks. The data set is a collection of 1 billion credentials sourced from stealer logs and hosted on the illicit.services website. Data breached: 70,840,771 email addresses.

Data Privacy 52

Data Privacy Privacy Manufacturing Retail 52

IT Governance

MARCH 5, 2024

252,796,762 known records breached in 126 newly disclosed incidents Welcome to this week’s global round-up of the biggest and most interesting news stories. At the end of each month, these incidents – and any others that we find – will be used to inform our monthly analysis of data breaches and cyber attacks.

Data Privacy 52

Data Privacy Privacy Manufacturing Retail 52

IT Governance

APRIL 9, 2024

67,273,297 known records breached in 130 newly disclosed incidents Welcome to this week’s global round-up of the biggest and most interesting news stories. At the end of each month, these incidents – and any others that we find – will be used to inform our monthly analysis of data breaches and cyber attacks.

Data Privacy 52

Data Privacy Privacy Security Manufacturing 52

IT Governance

JANUARY 3, 2024

At the end of each month, these incidents – and any others that we find – will be used to inform our monthly analysis of data breaches and cyber attacks. We’ll also soon publish our 2023 review of publicly disclosed incidents and records known to be breached across the year, as well as our quarterly report, so keep an eye on our blog.

Data Privacy 107

Data Privacy Insurance Manufacturing Retail 107

IT Governance

JANUARY 16, 2024

At the end of each month, these incidents – and any others that we find – will be used to inform our monthly analysis of data breaches and cyber attacks. The data is no longer publicly available. Data breached: >223,000,000 records. Data breached: >7,000,000 records. Data breached: 5,500,000 records.

Data Privacy 52

Data Privacy Privacy Manufacturing Retail 52

IT Governance

DECEMBER 11, 2023

At the end of each month, these incidents – and any others that we find – will be used to inform our monthly analysis of data breaches and cyber attacks. Data breached: more than 59 million data records. BianLian claims to have exfiltrated 5 TB of data, comprising millions of sensitive documents. Akumin Inc.

Data Privacy 101

Data Privacy Energy and Utilities Privacy Manufacturing 101

Data Protection Report

JANUARY 13, 2020

The majority of companies that did include the button/link were in the retail sector. We encourage you to review our data protection report blogs and contact us on how to help your business become CCPA compliant. For a more in-depth summary of the ballot initiative, please review our blog post, available at [link].

Privacy 49

Privacy B2B Sales Compliance 49

Data Protection Report

JANUARY 13, 2020

The majority of companies that did include the button/link were in the retail sector. We encourage you to review our data protection report blogs and contact us on how to help your business become CCPA compliant. For a more in-depth summary of the ballot initiative, please review our blog post, available at [link].

Privacy 40

Privacy B2B Sales Compliance 40

IT Governance

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

38,846,799 known records breached in 140 publicly disclosed incidents Welcome to this week’s global round-up of the biggest and most interesting news stories. At the end of each month, these incidents – and any others that we find – will be used to inform our monthly analysis of data breaches and cyber attacks.

Data Privacy 88

Data Privacy Privacy Insurance Security 88

IT Governance

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

Over the past month or so, we’ve been discussing the threats associated with payment card breaches, and why it’s important to comply with the PCI DSS (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard). Further reading: Why you should be concerned about payment card data breaches. The cost of a payment card data breach.

Data breaches 99

Data breaches Paper Retail Manufacturing 99

The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

In fact, the Verizon 2021 Data Breach Investigations Report found that “with an unprecedented number of people working remotely, phishing and ransomware attacks increased by 11 percent and 6 percent respectively.” Related: How ‘SASE’ blends connectivity, security. Securing Iot, MEC.

Cloud 177

Cloud IoT Cybersecurity Digital transformation 177

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 5, 2017

An unfortunate occurrence over the past few years has been that data breaches just keep getting bigger and impacting more people. This year, Equifax, Verizon, Wonga, Bell Canada and Hipchat were just a few of the companies that suffered from successful cyberattacks or leaks that resulted in sensitive data getting compromised.

IoT 89

IoT Cybersecurity Manufacturing Cloud 89

IT Governance

APRIL 29, 2024

5,255,944,117 known records breached in 128 newly disclosed incidents Welcome to this week’s global round-up of the biggest and most interesting news stories. At the end of each month, these incidents – and any others that we find – will be used to inform our monthly analysis of data breaches and cyber attacks.

Data Privacy 94

Data Privacy Privacy Manufacturing Security 94

IT Governance

DECEMBER 19, 2023

At the end of each month, these incidents – and any others that we find – will be used to inform our monthly analysis of data breaches and cyber attacks. Data breached: personal data belonging to 14,690,284 individuals. Data breached: personal data belonging to 14,690,284 individuals.

Data Privacy 52

Data Privacy Manufacturing Privacy Energy and Utilities 52

KnowBe4

MARCH 7, 2023

The KnowBe4 blog initially reported on this hack on March 24, 2022 here: [link] and in our CyberheistNews May 17, 2022 here: [link]. He wrote the book on it, literally - A Data-Driven Computer Security Defense. What they refer to is the Viasat hack. They probably had compromised the Viasat networks for months or years. Join Roger A.

Phishing 78

Phishing Ransomware Cybersecurity Security awareness 78

Troy Hunt

JULY 24, 2020

Truth be told, that was originally written as an internal blog post at my old corporate job, largely because I wanted to demonstrate that a lot of thought had gone into my home workspace and consequently, I should spend more time working from there instead of from my windowless corporate office. So here are. End result?

IoT 145

IoT IT Retail Cloud 145